Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. Other schools are observing the energy and momentum, and they are eager to join the movement.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2025

It’s easy to see why totalitarian governments would want to destroy the ability of people to see things from different perspectives and come up with a shared reality. Totalitarian governments want us to believe that there is only “one” truth: theirs. Bonding Versus Bridging Think about your own social circles.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Simply asking “why?” Asking “Why do you care about this?”

Participation and motivation

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

About a decade ago, those of us working toward social, racial, and economic justice in Boston and across Massachusetts were in fight mode. The Coalition for Worker Ownership and Power (COWOP) is a coalition of more than 40 co-ops and allies from across Massachusetts advocating for policies and resources to support worker ownership.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. We need policies that support a robust system of IP rights in order to develop successful AI models. Throughout this processimproving, applying, and using AIthe human element is essential.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities. The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2025

But generational energy is not self-sustaining. The Schott Foundation for Public Education accurately describes the familiar pattern as boom-and-bust cycles of funding whenever a big election is looming. And social media has facilitated that by reducing the cost of information sharing. As Ganz observes , Mobilizing is a tactic.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

Kristin Powell: My window into social justice came from Hurricane Katrina. That year got me thinking about wanting to focus my energy on the liberation of Black people, which ishow I thenleft the organizationthatI worked for in Florida and moved on to Black Futures Lab. What policies need to be put in place?

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 2, 2025

By Amanda Williams , Lucrezia Nava & Gail Whiteman In President Trumps second term, a variety of executive actions have reversed social progress. The head of the EPA has asked the White House to repeal the endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, contradicting climate science.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

Meanwhile, the Just Energy Transition Community seeks to accelerate Asia’s shift toward clean, inclusive energy solutions, co-led by organizations such as the Tara Climate Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Adopting Flexible and Community-Driven Approaches Philanthropy’s role is not to simply replace government funding.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

The orders provisions, if implemented, would deny bargaining rights for government workers across a wide range of departments, including at State, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Justice, and Homeland Security. Reagans war on big government, in short, set off a chain reaction.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Dwidar Jul. I set out in search of this evidence. Maraam A.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2025

The federal government is keeping pace. Within the first 100 days of taking office, the Donald Trump administration issued a barrage of executive orders and policy changes to infringe upon the rights of LGBTQ+ community members. Yet these very services are in the crosshairs of the federal government.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

The incoming Trump administration also aims to limit federal agency power regarding social welfare. By leveraging these compacts, states that share a vision of government as a protector and facilitator of human rights can collectively build robust structures to safeguard political and economic rights, even when federal institutions fail.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 15, 2025

Some people focus on political institutions , such as federal courts or opposition-led state governments, to act as bulwarks against autocracy. Still others believe that Trump’s economic mismanagement or attacks on “third rails” like Social Security and Medicaid will undermine the administration’s support.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

To gain a better understanding , NPQ interviewed government workers who have either lost their jobs or are afraid of being axed during Trumps ongoing firings. The application of that in the public domain into everyones lives is a particularly concerning version of what the current people in power are attacking. What drives this?

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 28, 2025

There’s no doubt—and the government agrees —that mining the copper will completely destroy an irreplaceable sacred site of Apache peoples named Chi’chil Bildagoteel, known in English as Oak Flat. This doesn’t even consider clean energy targets, according to researchers at the University of Michigan and Cornell University.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even where there is overall economic growth, continued concentration of ownership prevents ordinary working people, and marginalized communities in particular, from reaping the benefits of their contributions, reinforcing power imbalances and social inequalities. million in bonuses paid over and above their greenleaf income.

Governance

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 6, 2025

AI poses a threat to the reputation of a business , owing to ethical, social and many other risks. Advanced technology In this era of advanced technology, ethical management and responsible technology usage are crucial in forming a company’s public perception.

Management

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

In its wake, a grassroots movement to create distributed, renewable energy has gained considerable ground. The logic behind this community movement for distributed, community-owned renewable energy is clear. Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart?

Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Faced with a broken system, more Americans—across urban, suburban, exurban, and rural communities—are rallying around a positive vision for the future, one rooted in social housing systems that ensure housing for all.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Last year, our social impact startup hit a milestone that eludes 96 percent of female founders: we hit one million dollars in revenue. We know that for social entrepreneurs trying to solve global challenges, the system is rigged. Underneath every accomplishment lies a profoundly broken funding landscape for social innovation.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 9, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Mingook Kim on unsplash.com Two major problems confront California’s energy policy. Second, California’s energy laws and business models are rooted in injustice. These two major problems are perfectly illustrated in the passage of Net Energy Metering 3.0, This policy decision was complicated.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Public school teachers are not just educators.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy. For instance, the Crux Alliance—a network of six policy expert NGOs—was founded on the premise that getting the details of climate policy right is essential to real-world carbon reductions.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The CLIMA Fund , a collaboration across four public foundations supporting tens of thousands of grassroots groups advancing climate justice solutions, has learned a lot about the diverse and powerful ways grassroots movements create scaled impact. Relationships. Relationships and connectivity are the lifeblood of movement building.

Agriculture

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

Nonprofit Management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They aspire to be the vanguard—titans behind the policies, reforms, and decisions that will build our collective tomorrow. Several recent studies reveal that, globally, people under 30 lack trust in their national governments, do not feel heard by politicians, and have lower levels of participation in national elections.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Jess Daggers , Alex Hannant & Jason Jay In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. Investors who think about social change tend to be rooted in a linear, reductionist form of logic.

Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Book cover by Oxford University Press In his new book People, Power, Change, author-activist Marshall Ganz writes about the art and science of organizing and social change. Effective public voice arising from commitment to common purpose—a political process—has become rare indeed. Public voice grows quite faint.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Throughout my 35-year career as an optometrist turned social entrepreneur, I have practiced continual self-renewal in pursuit of a world where equitable access to eyeglasses is universal, especially for the poorest and most remote communities. Compassionate capitalism and public-private partnerships held the key to jumpstarting our impact.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Three big social changes would be necessary for such a path, and each one of them is a tall order. These three social changes are possible, even if very unlikely to happen without a coordinated effort. It is crucial, however, that the renewed energy of organized labor is channeled in the right way.

Public and Social Policy